Muscle Man!

This afternoon, Maddox was pulling colored pencils out of a box and naming all the colors. Of course, by the time I got the video camera out, he had moved on to something else. He just recently started naming a lot of colors. He knows white, black, brown, blue, green, and pink. One day, he even pointed to Britt's shirt and said "white". Then, he pointed to my arm and said "white"! Yes, I know I'm pasty white!

Since I had the camera out, I asked him to show his muscles. Hilarious!



Notice at the end of the video he says "Me strong". He has his pronouns mixed up right now. His absolute favorite phrase right now is "My do it!". Very independent!

Our 2 cats

Maddox just recently figured out that we have 2 cats. Sam and Lucy are hard to tell apart, and Lucy keeps her distance from him. The other day, I walked into the den to find this:

I believe this is the closest Maddox and Lucy have ever gotten. Of course, she was asleep and had no idea this was going on!

Thankfully, Sam is pretty good about letting Maddox pet him. He's always been a very easy-going cat. And, Maddox is usually gentle with him.

Sesame Street Live!

A couple of weekends ago, Maddox, Mimi, and I went to the show at the Mitchell Center. Maddox was enthralled.

This was the expression on his face most of the time.

He just couldn't figure it all out! He loved it, though. Of course, his favorite is ELMO!

Maddox is holding the $15 spinning Elmo toy we bought him. Maddox really does not beg for us to buy him things (at least not yet). But, the little boy sitting next to us had this toy, so we had to get one, too!

I'm glad that Maddox is getting old enough to take him to things like this. We had a really good time!

Mamo's 90th Birthday Party!

Saturday, August 30, we drove to Jay, Florida to Britt's grandmother's 90th birthday party.

Here is the birthday girl with Maddox and Britt.

Maddox is Mamo's 30th great-grandchild (I think!). This cute little girl, Avery, is Mamo's first and only great-great grandchild.

Maddox was hot and sweaty from riding the tractors and wasn't so sure about sharing his chair with her!

Granddad and Maddox supporting their favorite teams.

Sliding with Aunt Katie. Check out that hair!!

Playing with Aunt Katie and Uncle Jeremy

Mamo has been making quilts for 50 years, and has made one for every wedding, and the birth of every grandchild, great-grandchild, and great-great grandchild! At her birthday party they had a huge quilt show displaying some of the quilts.

This is Maddox being an active 2 year old and crawling under his baby quilt

One of the highlights of the day for Maddox was riding on the tractors!

Cousin Derrek let him climb on several tractors and actually took him for a ride around the yard on this huge sprayer!

It was a fun day! And, to top it all off, Bama won their game that night! Roll Tide!